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One year I told some friends that I bought a hot air balloon. Before I started, I did some quick research on the price of a used one, some of the specs, and the legality of flying one in the area so it would sound like I knew what I was talking about. I was enjoying that way too much and I got a couple of people either excited or confused about the whole situation. What a dumb thing to lie about. Maybe that's why it worked.

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The worst April Fool's joke I ever pulled was in 2005. I had just launched a fan site (complete with a forum) for a game I like to play earlier that year, and on April 1, I sent an email to all my forum members telling them that they had been banned for violating the forums' guidelines.

What made it worse was that I told them the reason for their banning (the rules they broke) could be found at the end of the email, which was separated from the main text by a LOT of line breaks. The reason being of course that they were the victim of my first ever April Fool's joke on the site. (And yes, I did tell everyone they were not banned, but instead the victims of my own twisted sense of humor.)

It wasn't April Fools, but still considered the same type of prank. During the 2000new year, my friend and I turned of all the breakers of her house exactly at midnight. Everyone had been talking about the turn of the century and what would happen. They thought it really was the end of the Earth! Maybe not the nicest thing I've ever done, but we got a good laugh and still talk about it every new year.

Years ago as part of a morning radio show prank, I broadcast that Michael Eisner (then head of Disney) was looking to buy the antebellum mansions in our town to make another amusement park. Several people called to say they had seen him snooping around. "I knew that was him!"

I told my boss I was going to quit unless he doubled my salary..after he agreed I kept the April fools part to myself lol...that actually never happened.

OK but one time I was planning on using PHPMailer to send the corporate office an email from the CEO saying that tomorrow was casual day. I ran it by the CEO to see if he would get pissed if I did it, he said, actually do this: I made the email come from his brother (the other president of the company) and I sent it to an employee (who was like a clean freak) that we need to have a meeting about his poor hygiene. It blew up in our faces though and his brother didn't think it was too funny.

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We don't do April's fool in Spain... we have our very own day, the 28h of December, the Day of All Saints.

The best joke I've ever seen was a Memo sent to all staff. The memo was related to the usage of dirty and not-very-polite words in the office which were used too often in the working enviroment. The memo had a good number of examples, and suggested better ways of doing the same comments.

It was so well written that everybody thought it was true. It wasn't till the next day that we received another memo saying "do you remember yesterday's memo? It was a joke!"